We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It simplifies storage."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"This solution is very useful to us as we use it internally for all of the services that we need. We use it as a lab and we showcase new technology to the customers and how it can help them going forward."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The solution is stable."
"The simplicity and ease of use have been very valuable features. I have a very small team, and only half of the team is well versed in the HP product. Whereas if I bring PowerStore in, everyone can learn it because it will be new on the floor."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"You can easily scale up, and scale-out."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"We find the product to be very flexible."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"The storage features are valuable."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"We are happy with the service in general. The only thing would be the price of the platform."
"The support is not very good."
"Increasing the RAM, and including physical cords would be beneficial."
"The product’s UI could be better."
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp ASA and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell PowerStore vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.
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